Netflix has always been pretty damn cool in my eyes; streaming video content on demand, for a really reasonable price. The fact that with things like the xBox360 and now Roku, it is moving back to...
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The AppleTV has always been a bit of an odd piece of equipment, it's rarely felt like it has a "place" in everyones home system. However, since Boxee came out for it, I've been...
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© labnol Sony, product manufacturer and entertainment content juggernaut, announced that they plan to release Hollywood studio releases to their Bravia LCD televisions via digital download. According...
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Good news if you are a Cox Cable subscriber. They announced high definition (HD) movies in its On DEMAND library; currently 20 movie titles with plans to offer more HD content in the future....
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TNT and TBS will stream all seven of their original summer series on TNT.tv and TBS.com. Episodes of The Closer, Heartland, Saving Grace, The Company from TNT and House of Payne, The Bill Engvall...
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Advertising Age points out "that [the] three-hour slice of the evening [called prime time] last year attracted $15 billion in TV ad spending." Back in the day, networks used to refer to that...
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Streaming headlong into the video-on-demand server market, Sun Microsystems introduced a large-capacity system that they claim provides the ability to deliver more than 10 times as many streams as...
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Broadcasting and Cable The nation's largest cable operators say they are "just scratching the surface" of video-on-demand and promised to offer a cavalcade of new products to allow...
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I have to ask: who are these people? I am referring to the Nielsen Research report in the NY Times article today that says "a lot of people with digital video recorders are not fast-forwarding...
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About a year and a half ago, one of Comcast's senior executives was telling me about TiVo and how much of his calendar time was taken up with their initiative. It's been so long since any news...
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While researching, I ran across this little table of statistics that Time Warner put out about their video on demand (VOD) changes within 2006.......
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Good news for video-on-demand: Mr. John Alchin, Comcast Chief Financial Officer, Projects that the number of VOD hours will double in 2007 and again in 2008.......
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I am very interested in VOD measurement and television ratings. To the best of my experience, three companies are trying to do something about that: Nielsen, Rentrak, and Everstream. Everstream's...
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There is a technology that both the cable MSO's and the telephone companies are pursuing - it is called switched broadcast. Why? Because switched broadcasting allows the provider to send only the...
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Here are a few video on demand (VOD) statistics from market research firm Claritas; reported in Broadcasting and Cable. Over half (54%) of digital cable subscribers use VOD, up from 41% in 2005,...
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Comcast has wanted prime-time television programs for more than two years for its video-on-demand service. It even tried once to acquire Disney in 2004, in large part, to gain access to its content....
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Show me the money Since the mid-1990's, I heard every year that video on demand (VOD) would emerge to be the next big thing. It took until 2004 for VOD to be rolled out in significant numbers....
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We have had a flurry of 'user generated content' stories wherein some television network or show entices viewers to make a specific type of Mashup and see who wins a contest. Many of the...
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Recently, NBC started up an ad-supported, full-episode video player named originally enough 'NBC Rewind.' Rewinds are 2-minute replays of episodes you missed on television. You can also watch...
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According to the LA Times, Disney is said to be near concluding a deal with Comcast and Time Warner. The most important portions of that deal include the mundane (at least mundane to us normal folks)...
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